Child injured in Columbia school bus accident

Police: Injured girl's mother turned in front of school bus

Howard County police said a child was injured in a crash involving a school bus Wednesday.

The crash involved a Howard County Public School System school bus as it was traveling eastbound on Little Patuxent Parkway approaching Hickory Ridge Road in Columbia around 7:50 a.m.

Investigators said an Accura, driven by Ashley Nicole Smith, 23, of Columbia, was driving on Little Patuxent Parkway when she made a left turn in front of the bus.

The bus struck her rear passenger’s side door, where Smith's 1-year-old daughter was sitting in a child's car seat. The girl was taken to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in unknown condition. It was not clear if Smith suffered any injuries since she left the scene to be with her daughter, police said.

The bus driver, 51-year-old Tracy Rae Crowder, and two students, a 10-year-old and 6-year-old boy, were on the bus, as well as two aides -- Jamie Kirby, 20, and Della Rosenberger, 51. No one on the bus was injured, police said.

Authorities did not say which school the bus was headed to but said another bus responded to the scene and took the children to school.

No charges have been filed, police said, but the investigation continues.

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